Inside War: Understanding the Evolution of Organised Violence in the Global Era

Fabio Armao

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Open Poland 2015

Inside War

Understanding the Evolution of Organised Violence in the Global Era

Fabio Armao

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110471243

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About this book

The post-Cold War era was characterised by both the recurrence of state wars and the spread of forms of organised violence other than wars. Asymmetric warfare between alliances led by the USA and groups of insurgents, such as those witnessed in Afghanistan and Iraq, coexist alongside domestic conflicts, such as that of former Yugoslavia and, more recently, Libya and Syria; and still other conflicts involving gangs, mafias or narco-traffickers. The massive military-industrial complexes conceived in the context of the threat of nuclear Armageddon are still there of course, but they now coexist with irregular armies of insurgents carrying out massacres through the use of light weapons and improvised explosives devices.
This book oppose the idea that this situation prefigures the return to an anarchical, pre-political condition, by assuming that new wars are rather the product of the blurring of the public-private divide, induced by the end of the Cold War, together with globalisation. As a consequence, also the internal and external factors are blurred; and ever more permeable and elusive is becoming even the border between war and crime.
Inside War goes beyond a state-centered analysis and adopts an interdisciplinary and multilayered approach, and is intended to foster the dialogue among researchers from different fields. It places war at the core of analysis, assuming that the reality of war is what we make of it; and that the only insurmountable limit to our comprehension of war is our way of knowing and representing it.
Fabio Armao teaches courses in Politics and Globalisation Processes, and Criminal Systems. He has been Visiting Professor at Cornell University, and co-convenor of the Standing Group on Organized Crime, European Consortium for Political Research. Founding member of T.wai (Torino World Affair Institute), he is also member of the Editorial Board of ‘Global Crime’. His research interests and publications focus on international wars and geopolitics, on violent non-state actors and transnational organised crime, and on urban security.

War, Violent non-state actors, organized crime

Author / Editor information

Fabio Armao is Full Professor of International Relations, University of Turin, Italy.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	X
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	XVII
Part I
1. Old Wars, New Wars Publicly Available Download PDF	2
Part II
2. Violence and the Human Factor Publicly Available Download PDF	28
3. Military Apparatuses Publicly Available Download PDF	46
4. Battlefields Publicly Available Download PDF	66
5. The Propaganda Machine Publicly Available Download PDF	85
6. War Political Economy Publicly Available Download PDF	110
Part III
7. Perspectives on the Coming World Publicly Available Download PDF	136
8. Conclusion. Urban Resistance to Violence Publicly Available Download PDF	151
Bibliography Publicly Available Download PDF	158
Index Publicly Available Download PDF	192

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Open Poland
Audience: Military Academies, to Foreign Policy think tanks, and Governmental and Non-Governmental International Organisations
Pages
- Main content: 205
Keywords: War; Violent non-state actors; Organised crime; Urban security; Globalisation processes; State making

eBook

Published: February 22, 2016
ISBN: 9783110471243

Hardcover

Published: February 22, 2016
ISBN: 9783110471199